One drunk person called 999 to report a woman for using drugs. Officers revealed: "We asked how he knew this. He said: 'Because I collect them for her'."

A common time-wasting call was said to be: "I cannae afford a taxi home, any chance of a lift?"

The caller who complained about a burger restaurant, said he had been given a hamburger instead of a cheeseburger.

Another caller asked: "There's a pigeon with a broken wing in my garden, can you come out and help?", while someone wanted Scottish officers to go to a house in Tottenham, to see if their friend was having an affair.

And one woman asked police to come to her home because she wanted her son to get a haircut.

Police Scotland's Sgt John Kerr said: "You should call 101 any time when it isn't a 999 - any time when it isn't an emergency.

"Examples are when you've been involved in a minor traffic accident, if you've been the victim of a minor crime that isn't ongoing, if you've seen a missing person and you want to talk to your local police officer, any time when you want to speak to the police when it isn't an emergency."